Systems, methods, and apparatus for locating and drilling closed holes of a turbine component
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsYusuf Eren Ozturk, Selami Haydar Icli
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Abstract
Certain embodiments of the disclosure may include systems, methods, and apparatus for locating and drilling closed holes of a gas turbine component. According to an example embodiment, the method can include receiving position data associated with one or more holes in a gas turbine component; receiving predefined hole position data from manufacturing data associated with the gas turbine component; determining at least one missing hole, based at least in part on comparing the received position data to the predefined hole position data; and drilling at least one hole in the gas turbine component corresponding to the determined at least one missing hole.
Claims20
A method to locate and drill a gas turbine component, the method comprising:
- receiving position data associated with one or more holes in a gas turbine component;
- receiving predefined hole position data from manufacturing data associated with the gas turbine component;
- determining at least one missing hole, based at least in part on the received position data and the predefined hole position data, wherein determining the at least one missing hole comprises:
- (i) determining an angle between consecutive holes with respect to an origin point on the gas turbine component, and (ii) determining the at least one missing hole if the angle between the one or more holes with respect to the origin point is greater than the angle between the consecutive holes;
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- drilling at least one hole in the gas turbine component corresponding to the determined at least one missing hole.
A system for locating and drilling a gas turbine component, the system comprising:
- an inspection device for acquiring hole position data for the gas turbine component;
- a drilling device for removing material from the gas turbine component corresponding to the determined at least one missing hole;
- a multi-axial manipulator device for positioning a gas turbine component, an inspection device or a drilling device;
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- at least one processor configured to:
- receive, from the inspection device, position data associated with one or more holes in a gas turbine component;
- receive predefined hole position data from manufacturing data associated with the gas turbine component;
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- determine at least one missing hole, based at least in part on the received position data and the predefined hole position data, wherein determining the at least one missing hole comprises:
- (i) determining an angle between consecutive holes with respect to an origin point on the gas turbine component, and (ii) determining the at least one missing hole if the angle between the one or more holes with respect to the origin point is greater than the angle between the consecutive holes.
An apparatus for locating and drilling a gas turbine component comprising:
- at least one processor in communication with at least one memory module and configured to:
- receive position data associated with one or more holes in a gas turbine component using an inspection device;
- receive predefined hole position data from manufacturing data associated with the gas turbine component;
- determine at least one missing hole, based at least in part on the received position data and the predefined hole position data, wherein determining the at least one missing hole comprises:
- (i) determining an angle between consecutive holes with respect to an origin point on the gas turbine component, and (ii) determining the at least one missing hole if the angle between the one or more holes with respect to the origin point is greater than the angle between the consecutive holes;
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- position a gas turbine component, an inspection device or a drilling device using a multi-axial manipulator device configured to manipulate at least one of the gas turbine component, the inspection device and the drilling device with respect to a local coordinate system and drill at least one hole in the gas turbine component corresponding to the determined at least one missing hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.